PATRICIA MOONEY-MELVIN

Department of History Loyola University Chicago 1032 W. Sheridan Road Chicago, IL 60660 773-508-2228; Fax: 773-508-3693 e-mail: [email protected] https://luc.edu/history/people/facultydirectory/mooney-melvinpatricia.shtml

EDUCATION

Ph.D. University of Cincinnati 1978

AREAS OF RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTEREST

American History 1880-1940 Public History Social Welfare History

TEACHING/ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

Associate Professor, Department of History, Loyola University Chicago, 1991-Present. Public History Program Director, 1990-2002, Graduate Program Director, 2002-2006, 2017-Present. Interim Dean, The Graduate School, Loyola University Chicago, July 2015 –June 2017. Associate Dean, The Graduate School, Loyola University Chicago, 2006-June 2015. Acting Dean, The Graduate School, Loyola University Chicago, May-August 2010, January-March 2014. Assistant Professor, Department of History, Loyola University Chicago, 1989-1991. Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Public History Program, Department of History, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 1985-1989. Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Public History Program, Department of History, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 1981-1985. Faculty Member, Teaching Public History. A Summer Humanities Institute funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Arizona State University. July 5-August 3, 1984. Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, The College of Wooster, 1979-1981. Instructor, Department of History, University of Cincinnati, Summers, 1974-1976. Laboratory Assistant, Effective Reading Program, University of Cincinnati, Summer, 1974. Teaching and Research Assistant, Department of History, Laboratory of American Civilization, University of Cincinnati, 1974-1975. Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of History, University of Cincinnati, 1971-1974.

HONORS

ETS/CGS Award for Innovation in Promoting Success in Graduate Education, 2012. Co-PI with Samuel Attoh. Honorable Mention. Certificate of Recognition for demonstrated excellence in teaching, mentoring, and advising of graduate students. Graduate Education Week. The Graduate School, Loyola University Chicago, 2006. Graduate Faculty Member of the Year, Loyola University Chicago, 2002. President, National Council on Public History, 1994-1995. Certificate of Excellence, Illinois State Historical Society, Spring 1994 for Reading Your Neighborhood: A History of East Rogers Park. Chicago: Loyola University, 1993.

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, INSTITUTES

Career Diversity Implementation Grant. American Historical Association, 2018-2020, Co-PI with Kyle Roberts. RACE: Are We So Different? Research Support Grant, Loyola University Chicago, 2018, Co-PI with Elizabeth Fraterrigo. Faculty Institute. American Historical Association. 2017-2018. Charting Career Pathways: Enhancing and Sustaining Doctoral Education in the Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2016-2017, PI. Arthur J. Schmitt Dissertation Fellowship, 2016-2017, PI. Arthur J. Schmitt Dissertation Fellowship, 2015-2016, Co-PI with Samuel Attoh. Enhancing Student Financial Education, Council of Graduate Schools/TIAA-CREF, 2013-2015, Co- Director with Jessica Horowitz. Mastering the Humanities: Growing, Diversifying, and Sustaining Humanities Education, Midwest Association of Graduate Schools/Educational Testing Service Award for Excellence and Innovation in Graduate Education, 2013-2015, Co-PI with Samuel Attoh. Arthur J. Schmitt Dissertation Fellowship 2014-2015, Co-PI with Samuel Attoh Diversifying Higher Education Faculty in Illinois (DFI) 2014-2015, Illinois Board of Higher Education, Co-PI with Samuel Attoh. Arthur J. Schmitt Dissertation Fellowship 2013-2014, Co-PI with Samuel Attoh. Diversifying Higher Education Faculty in Illinois (DFI) 2013-2014, Illinois Board of Higher Education, Co-PI with Samuel Attoh. Doctoral Initiative on Minority Attrition and Completion, 2012-2014, National Science Foundation and the Council of Graduate Schools. Co-PI with Samuel Attoh. Diversifying Higher Education Faculty in Illinois (DFI) 2012-3013, Illinois Board of Higher Education, Co-PI with Samuel Attoh. Arthur J. Schmitt Dissertation Fellowship 2012-2013, Co-PI with Samuel Attoh. Completion and Attrition in STEM Master’s Programs 2011-2012, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Council of Graduate Schools, Co-PI with Samuel Attoh. Arthur J. Schmitt Dissertation Fellowship 2011-2012, Co-PI with Samuel Attoh. Diversifying Higher Education Faculty in Illinois (DFI) 2011-2012, Illinois Board of Higher Education, Co-PI with Samuel Attoh. Diversifying Higher Education Faculty in Illinois (DFI) 2010-2011, Illinois Board of Higher Education, Co-PI with Samuel Attoh. Diversifying Higher Education Faculty in Illinois (DFI) 2009-2010, Illinois Board of Higher Education (through Southern Illinois University), Co-PI with Samuel Attoh. Diversifying Higher Education Faculty in Illinois (DFI) 2008-2009, Illinois Board of Higher Education (through Southern Illinois University), Co-PI with Samuel Attoh. Loyola University Research Stimulation Grant. Spring 2006. Loyola University Research Support Grant. “The Improvement Impulse: Civic Activism, Enhancement, Protection, and Planning.” 2005. Loyola University Research Support Grant. “Making Sense of the City: Local Government, Civic Culture and Community Life in American Cities.” 2001. Mellon Awards for Core Curriculum Improvement. Loyola University Chicago. “Integration of Material Culture, Landscapes, and the Built Environment into the Design of History 103 Modern Western Civilization: American Pluralism.” 1999-2000. Loyola University Research Support Grant. “A ‘Petrified Congress of Nations’: The Physical Representation of Chicago’s Ethnic Experience.” 1998. Loyola University Research Support Grant. “Before the Neighborhood Organization Revolution: Cincinnati Neighborhood Improvement Associations, 1890-1950.” 1996. 2 U.S. Department of Defense. Legacy Resource Management Program. “Guidebook to DoD-related World War II Sites and Museums.” 1992-1995. Loyola Endowment for the Liberal Arts Award. “East Rogers Park Neighborhood History Project.” 1993. Illinois Humanities Council Mini-Grant. “East Rogers Park Neighborhood History Project.” 1992- 1993. Loyola Endowment for the Humanities Award. “East Rogers Park Neighborhood History Project.” 1992-1993. Illinois Humanities Council Grant. “Agents of Change: the Jesuits and Mid-America.” 1991-1993. Loyola University Summer Research Grant. “‘The Neighborhood in Nation-Building’: the Contribution of the Settlement House Movement to Neighborhood Identification and Strategies of Community Organization 1886-1920.” 1990. National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend. “‘With Interests Common to All’: Cincinnati's Neighborhood Improvement Associations 1880-1920.” 1983. Arkansas Endowment for the Humanities Mini-Grant. “Captured Moments in Time: Exploring Women's Past Through Photographs.” 1982. UALR Faculty Research Award. “Steamboats West: The Legacy of a Transportation Revolution.” 1982. OAC/OPH Joint Program in Folk Art and Culture Grant. “Ohio Quilts and Quilters 1800-1981.” 1981. Summer Institute in Quantitative Methods. Newberry Library. 1980. Management Training Seminar. Franklin University. 1979. Charles P. Taft Fellowship. University of Cincinnati. 1975-1976. University Summer Research Grant. University of Cincinnati. 1975. Smithsonian Summer Research Fellowship. Joseph Henry Papers. Smithsonian Institution. 1973.

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Making Sense of the City: Local Government, Civic Culture, and Community Life in American Cities. Editor with Robert B. Fairbanks. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2001. “Introduction,” with Robert Fairbanks. The Organic City: Urban Definition and Neighborhood Organization 1880-1920. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1987. The Urbanization of Modern America. 2nd Edition. With Zane L. Miller. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987. American Community Organizations: A Historical Dictionary. Editor. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1986.

Other Publications

The Path from Our Founding to Our Future: A City Tour of Loyola University Chicago's Historic Downtown Sites. Walking Tour Brochure. Loyola University. September 1995. Reading Your Neighborhood: A History of East Rogers Park. Chicago: Loyola University, 1993. Rogers Park Montessori School 1966-1991. Chicago: RPMS, 1991. “Tracing the Quiltmaker.” Guide #1. American Quilt Study Group. 1987. Ohio Quilts and Quilters 1800-1981. The College of Wooster. Wooster, Ohio, 1981. [Exhibition Catalog.]

Articles

“Engaging the Neighborhood: the East Rogers Park Neighborhood History Project and the 3 Possibilities and Challenges of Community-Based Initiatives.” Journal of Urban History 40 (May 2014): 462-478. “Before the Neighborhood Organization Revolution: Cincinnati’s Neighborhood Improvement Associations, 1890-1940,” in Making Sense of the City: Local Government, Civic Culture, and Community Life in American Cities, eds. Robert B. Fairbanks and Patricia Mooney-Melvin, 95-118. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2001. “Professional Historians and the Challenge of Redefinition.” Public History: Essays From the Field, eds. James B. Gardner and Peter LaPaglia, 5-21. Malabar, FA: Krieger Press, 1999, 2004. “Urban History, Local History, and Public History.” History News 51 (Spring 1996): 18-23. “Beyond the Book: Historians and the Interpretive Challenge.” The Public Historian 17 (Fall 1995): 75-82. “Professional Historians and ‘Destiny's Gate.’” The Public Historian 17 (Summer 1995): 9-24. “Harnessing the Romance of the Past: Preservation, Tourism, and History.” The Public Historian 13 (Spring 1991): 35-48. “Using the Past: Public History at Loyola.” Origins 7 (1991): 3. “In Quest of the Professional Historian: The Introduction to Public History Course.” The Public Historian 9 (Summer 1987): 67-79. “The Neighborhood-City Relationship” in American Urbanism: A Historiographical Review, eds. Howard Gillette, Jr. and Zane L. Miller, 257-270. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1987. “Changing Contexts: Neighborhood Definition and Urban Organization.” American Quarterly 37 (1985): 357-367. “Milk to Motherhood: the New York Milk Committee and the Beginning of Well-Child Programs.” Mid-America 65 (October 1983): 111-134. “Building Muscles and Civics: Folk Dancing, Ethnic Diversity and the Playground Association of America.” American Studies 24 (Spring 1983): 89-99. “Steamboats West: The Legacy of a Transportation Revolution.” The Old Northwest 7 (Winter 1981- 1982): 339-357. “‘Rock of Ages’ v. the Age of Rocks.” Radical Historians Newsletter 38 (November 1982): 2, 6. “The Humanities, History, and Urban Policy,” in The Humanities, The City and The University: Applying Human Values to Urban Problems, ed. John Miller, 21-25. Little Rock, AR, 1981. “A Cluster of Interlacing Communities: The Cincinnati Social Unit Plan and the First Community Organization Movement 1900-1920,” in Community Organization for Urban Social Change: A Historical Perspective, eds. Peter Romanofsky and Robert Fisher, 59-88. Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 1981. Reprinted in Poverty and Public Policy in Modern America, ed. Donald T. Critchlow and Ellis W. Hawley, 65-82. Chicago: Dorsey Press, 1988. “Mohawk-Brighton: A Pioneer in Neighborhood Health Care.” Cincinnati Historical Society Bulletin 36 (Spring 1978): 57-72. “Make Milwaukee Safe for Babies: The Child Welfare Commission and the Development of Urban Health Centers 1911-1912.” Journal of the West 17 (Spring 1978): 83-93. “The Woman in Indian Miniature Painting.” Graduate Research Bulletin 1 (Spring 1975): 25-32.

Encyclopedia Articles

“Rogers Park,” in Chicago Neighborhoods and Suburbs: A Historical Guide, ed. Ann Durkin Keating, 263-264. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2008. “West Ridge, in Chicago Neighborhoods and Suburbs: A Historical Guide, ed. Ann Durkin Keating, 300-301. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2008. “Rogers Park,” in The Encyclopedia of Chicago History, eds. James Grossman, Ann Durkin Keating, and Jan Reiff, 714-715. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2004. “West Ridge,” in The Encyclopedia of Chicago History, eds. James Grossman, Ann Durkin Keating, and Jan Reiff, 872-873. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2004. 4 “Samuel Jay Crumbine,” in American National Biography, Vol. 5, eds. John Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, 818-820. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1999. “Lincoln Steffens,” in American National Biography, Vol. 20, eds. John Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, 614-616. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1999. “The Great and Little Miami Rivers,” in Rolling Rivers: An Encyclopedia of America's Rivers, ed. Richard A. Bartlett. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1984. Sketches of five Cincinnati Mayors, in the Biographical Dictionary of American Mayors, 1820-1980, eds. Melvin G. Holli and Peter d'A. Jones. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1981.

Published Oral History Interviews

Thompson, St. Clair. Oral History Interview. Vicksburg District. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. 1990.

Book Reviews

Reviews of books in the following fields--urban history, women's history, social welfare history, material culture, and public history--have appeared in the Journal of American History, Urban Studies, the Journal of Southern History, the American Historical Review, The Public Historian, The Historian, the Georgia Historical Quarterly, Minnesota History, Ohio History, Tampa Bay History, Historical Review, Pennsylvania History, Northwest Ohio Quarterly, The Economic History Review, Planning Perspectives, The Western Historical Quarterly, the Great Lakes Review, Annals of Iowa, Indiana Magazine of History, Journal of American Ethnic History, Southern California Quarterly, and Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society.

Exhibit Reviews

July 1942: United We Stand. Kathleen Kendrick, Helena Wright, and Marilyn Zoidis, curators. National Museum of American History. The Public Historian 25:2 (2003): 115-119. Grand Illusions: Chicago's World's Fair of 1893. William de Wit, curator. Chicago Historical Society, May 1, 1993-July 15, 1994. The Public Historian 16 (Spring 1994): 141-143.

Walking Tour Reviews

Pensacola Historic Landscape Walking Tour. Guide: Tim Roberts, University of West Florida. The Public Historian 33:4 (2011): 72-74.

Posters

Transformative Graduate Education. Ignatian Colleagues Program. Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. January 6, 2011.

PRESENTATIONS

Graduate Education Presentations/Facilitations/Convenings

“Historical Underpinnings of Midwestern Higher Education.” Midwest Association of Graduate Schools Annual Conference, April 5, 2017. “Development of an Alumni Mentoring Program.” Illinois Association of Graduate Schools. October 28, 2016. Doctoral Educational and Learning Outcomes Frameworks Convening. Lumina Foundation. Invited Participant. September 28, 2016. 5 Hot Topic: Doctoral Learning Outcomes. Co-Facilitator. Council of Graduate Schools Summer Workshop. July 12, 2016. “Financial Education: Multiple Learning Pathways to Enhancing Knowledge.” National Summit on Collegiate Financial Wellness. June 17, 2016. “Financial Literacy: Best Practices in Implementing a Program.” Illinois Association of Graduate Schools. October 3, 2014. “Mastering the Humanities: Growing, Diversifying, and Sustaining Humanities Education.” Midwest Association of Graduate Schools. April 11, 2014. Panelist. “Financial Review Models for Interdisciplinary Program: Are They Compatible?” Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities Graduate Conference. March 15, 2013. Panelist. “Pathways Through Graduate School and into Careers.” Illinois Association of Graduate Schools. October 5, 2012. “The Humanities and Career Pathways.” The Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools. April 12, 2012. “Dealing With Students in Crisis.” Council of Graduate Schools. December 9, 2011. “Master’s Education: Challenges and Opportunities.” Illinois Association of Graduate Schools. October 17, 2011. “Transformative Graduate Education at Loyola University Chicago.” Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities Graduate Conference. March 18, 2011. “Mentoring Graduate Students.” Focus on Teaching. Loyola University Chicago. January 13, 2011. “Balancing Graduate Education and Undergraduate Education in the University Setting.” With Jessica Horowitz. Midwest Association of Graduate Schools. April 22, 2010. “Synergies Between Graduate and Undergraduate Students.” With Jessica Horowitz. Convocation for Graduate Administrators. Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities, March 28, 2009.

History Presentations

“Women and the Urban Landscape: Chicago.” National Council on Public History. March 17, 2016. “Claiming and Engaging Space: The National Women’s History Museum.” Scholar Summit. Congressional Commission on a National Women’s History Museum. January 26, 2016. “Reflective Practice: Public History’s Signature Pedagogy.” Public History Workshop. European University Institute. February 13, 2015. “Mission-Oriented Curricular Design: Reflective Practice in Action.” National Council on Public History. April 19, 2013. “The Challenge of Engagement: The East Rogers Park Neighborhood History Project.” National Council on Public History/Organization of American Historians. April 20, 2012. “Monumental Memory: Ethnicity in Chicago.” Vince Howard Memorial Lecture, Lewis University, April 29, 2010. “Remembering Workers in The City That Works.” Organization of American Historians/The National Council on Public History, April 21, 2006. “Charting New Territory: Chicago’s Settlement Houses and Immigrants.” Shared Text Symposium, Loyola University Chicago, September 14, 2005. “A ‘Petrified Congress of Nations’: The Physical Representation of Chicago’s Ethnic Experience.” National Council on Public History. April 15, 2005. “Women’s Memorial Landscape in Chicago.” Women’s and Gender Historians in the Midwest. June 12, 2004. “Reading Your Neighborhood: The East Rogers Park Neighborhood History Project.” American Historical Association. January 5, 2003. “Public History Training: An Overview of the NCPH Survey of MA Programs.” American Association for State and Local History. September 26, 2002. “The Landscape of Urban Memory: Women in Chicago.” National Council on Public History. April 6 2001. “Clio Meets the Glass Ceiling: NCPH’s Survey of Public History Graduates.” National Council on Public History/the Organization of American Historians. March 30, 2000. “Remembering Workers in The City That Works.” National Council on Public History. May 2, 1999. “A ‘Petrified Congress of Nations’: The Physical Representation of Chicago's Ethnic Experience.” National Council on Public History. April 17, 1998. “Neighborhood Organizing and Community Organizations, 1880-1950.” Cleveland State University. April 17, 1997. “What Did You Do After Graduation? Results from the NCPH Survey of Public History Program Graduates.” National Council on Public History. May 2, 1997. “Chicago’s Neighborhoods.” The Chicago Architecture Foundation. February 3, 1996. “A History of East Rogers Park.” The Chicago Architecture Foundation. May 24, 1995. “Professional Historians and ‘Destiny's Gate’”. Presidential Address. National Council on Public History. April 1, 1995. “Reading Your Neighborhood: A History of East Rogers Park.” Urban History Seminar. Chicago Historical Society. December 8, 1994. “Teaching Chicago and Illinois History: Topics, Textbooks, Readings, and Research.” Illinois History Symposium. December 2, 1994. “Before the Neighborhood Organization Revolution: Cincinnati Improvement Associations, 1890- 1950.” The Working Paper Series, H-Urban Seminar on the History of Community Organization and Community-Based Development, Spring 1997 and Seminar on the City, Cincinnati Historical Society, November 9, 1994. “Local Improvement Associations and the City-Building Process.” The New England Historical Association. April 23, 1994. “Remembering the Past, Interpreting the Present, and Charting the Future.” National Council on Public History. May 1, 1993. “Making Women's History Public.” The Chicago Area Women's History Group. January 9, 1993. “Public History and Archival Education.” Midwest Archives Conference. May 21, 1992. “‘With Interests Common to All’: Neighborhood Improvement Associations, Civic Federations, and City Planning 1880-1920.” Fourth National Conference on American Planning History. November 8, 1991. “Preservation, Tourism, and History: A Powerful Troika?” The National Council on Public History. March 9, 1990. “Teddy Roosevelt and the Rise of the Modern Presidency.” The University Institute. May 2, 1889. “American Urban History: The Modern Challenge.” New Mexico State University. February 11, 1988. “Archival Education in a Public History Program.” Society of American Archivists. September 4, 1987. “Women in the Museum Profession.” Seventh Berkshire Conference of the History of Women. June 20, 1987. “Local History in a Public History Program.” Arkansas Historical Association. April 17, 1987. “Settlements and Neighborhoods During the Progressive Era.” The Midwest American Settlement House Conference. May 1, 1986. “Neighborhood Organizing in the Twentieth-Century South.” Social Science History Association. October 17, 1986. “‘With Interests Common to All’: Cincinnati's Neighborhood Improvement Associations, 1880-1920.” Organization of American Historians. April 19, 1985. “The Craft of Public History.” Tennessee Conference of Historians. April 6, 1985. “Searching Out the Quiltmaker: Resources and Research in Social History.” Quilt Documentation Conference. October 8, 1984. “Curriculum Development in Public History.” Organization of American Historians/National Council on Public History. April 17, 1984. “The Archives of the UALR Library.” Presbyterian Historical Society of the Southwest. March 3, 7 1984. “Teaching Public History.” National Council on Public History. May 7, 1983. “Women Working Together.” Needlework/Women's Work Conference. The Southeast Arkansas Arts and Science Center. April 16, 1983. “Preserving and Interpreting Our Past: Public History in Action.” Garland County Historical Society. April 13, 1983. “Captured Moments in Time: Photographs as Documents for Women's History.” American Association for State and Local History. September 23, 1982. “The Humanities, History, and Urban Policy.” Symposium, "The Humanities, The City, and the University: Applying Human Values to Urban Problems." University of Arkansas at Little Rock. November 30, 1981. “Connecting: The Social World of Quilting.” The College of Wooster. April 29, 1981. “Urban Elites, Cultural Diversity, and the Discovery of the ‘Folk’, 1876-1930: The Folk Dance Movement.” Organization of American Historians. April 1981. “Quilting: Social Functions of Women's Handwork.” The College of Wooster. May 14, 1980. “Organizing by Blocks: The Cincinnati Social Unit Organization.” American Historical Association. December 29, 1979. “Steamboats West: Men, Materials, and the Growth of the Ohio Valley.” Society of American Archivists. September 3, 1978. “Mohawk-Brighton: A Pioneer in Neighborhood Health Care.” The Cecil Striker Society for the History of Medicine. April 11, 1977. “Make Milwaukee Safe for Babies: The Child Welfare Commission and the Development of Urban Health Centers, 1911-1912.” Missouri Valley History Conference. March 11, 1977. “The Meteorological Organization of the Smithsonian Institution, 1848-1891.” Midwest Junto of the History of Science Society. April 11, 1974. “The Campaign for Mathematical Lectureships, 1550-1600.” Missouri Valley History Conference. March 9, 1974.

WORKSHOPS AND SPECIAL CONFERENCES

“Ethical Issues Regarding Human Subjects and Oral History: Issues Beyond the IRB.” Responsible Conduct of Research and Scholarship Workshop. Office of Research Services. May 17, 2018. “Introduction to and the Importance of Responsible Conduct and Scholarship.” Responsible Conduct of Research and Scholarship Workshop. Office of Research Services. All sessions, 2010-2018. The Role of Interpretation in Institutional Sustainability. Facilitator and Presenter. National Council on Public History. April 6, 2011. Organizer with Patrick Boyle. Dreams of Mexico: Independence, Revolution, and Contemporary Social Issues. Loyola University Chicago. November 2010. “Public History and the Public Good.” Working Group: The Public Value of History. National Council on Public History, April 3, 2009. Building an Integrative Public History Program Workshop. Co-facilitator and Presenter with Noel Stowe of Arizona State University. National Council on Public History, April 14, 2007. Conference Participant/Session Moderator. “Competencies and Credentials in the Training of History Professionals.” Wingspread Conference, co-sponsored by the American Historical Association and The Johnson Foundation. May 16-18, 2005. Facilitator. “Collaborating With Communities.” Using the Past to Shape the Future: Addressing Civic Issues at Historical Sites, Museums, and Cultural Centers. Jane Addams Hull-House Museum. November 19, 2004. “Learning Styles.” Issues on Teaching Workshop. Loyola University Chicago. November, 1997. “Preservation vs. Access.” Presenter. AASLH Historic House Museums Seminar. Pleasant Home Foundation, Oak Park, IL. March 22, 1996. 8 “Rogers Park/West Ridge: Rhythms of Diversity.” Topic: A History of Rogers Park and West Ridge. The Chicago Historical Society. November 30 and December 2, 1995. “The American City.” History for Now: The Changing Community in the Twentieth Century. The Albany Institute of History and Art. March 3, 1995. “Administration and Teaching of Public History.” Topic: Curriculum planning for public history programs. National Council on Public History. March 8, 1990. Member, Public History Workshop Team. Organization of American Historians. 1986-1987. “Women in Labor History.” Workshop conducted for the Arkansas Coalition of Labor Union Women. Arkansas Coalition of Labor Union Women Conference. June 2, 1984. “Local History Workshop.” Topic: Photographs, Artifacts, and Oral History. University of Arkansas at Little Rock. May 6, 1982. “Women and Work: America's Working Women 1800-1979.” Working Women: Our Part of the Story. Oral History Workshop. Ohio Historical Society. May 5, 1979. “With Working Women and Microphones: Labor's Oral Herstory.” Working Womanroots: An Introduction to Oral History for Women in Labor Movement. Workshop sponsored by the Ohio Labor History Project and "The Twentieth Century Trade Union Woman: Vehicle for Social Change" Oral History Project. Ohio Historical Society. September 16, 1978.

CHAIR, COMMENTS, ROUNDTABLES, FORUMS

Facilitator: “Women’s History in Sites and Places: A Critical Conversation.” National Council on Public History Annual Conference, April 20, 2017. Chair/Participant: “Roundtable: Making Sense of the City: Zane L. Miller and American Urban History.” October 14, 2016. Commentator: “The Right to the City: Community Activism and the Role of Neighborhood Organizations in American Cities, 1960s-1970s. October 16, 2016. Presenter. “Re-interpreting Relevance: Preservation, Herstory, and the Challenge to the National Narrative. National Council on Public History. March 17, 2016. Commentator. “Rocket Boys, Gypsy Coeds, and New Media: Making History Public.” 12th Annual Loyola University Chicago History Graduate Student Conference. November 14, 2015. Moderator. “From a Whisper to a Shout: Finding Ways to Share Women’s History through Innovative Collaboration.” American Association for State and Local History. September 18, 2015. Commentator. “(Re)Building Public Memory.” Vernacular Architectural Form. June 6, 2015. Participant. “Working Group – Pedagogy in Public: Academic Programs and Community Partners.” National Council on Public History. April 16, 2015. Commentator. “Cityscapes: Art and Urban Imagination.” 11th Annual Loyola University Chicago History Graduate Student Conference. November 15, 2014. Moderator. “Public History Roundtable: Interpreting ‘Others’ on Jekyll Island: A Voice for workers, Women, and Children.” 11th Annual Loyola University Chicago History Graduate Student Conference. November 15, 2014. Chair. “Where are the Women at Historic Sites.” American Association for State and Local History. September 20, 2013. Commentator. “Rethinking Community History.” 9th Annual Loyola University Chicago History Graduate Student Conference. November 3, 2012. Commentator. “Commemoration and Conflict in the Twentieth Century.” 8th Annual Loyola University Chicago History Graduate Conference. November 5, 2011. Panelist. “Community-Based Education in the Jesuit Tradition.” “Teaching in and Beyond the Classroom.” College of the Holy Cross. August 25, 2011. Commentator. “Public History, Education, and New Communities.” National Council on Public History. April 8, 2011. Commentator. “New Perspectives on Local History.” National Council on Public History. March 11, 9 2010. Commentator. “Rest and Peace?: Defining Space in the Urban Landscape.” Fifth Annual Loyola University Chicago History Graduate Student Conference. April 25, 2009. Commentator. “Our Town: Making a Case for Local History.” Fourth Annual Loyola University Chicago History Graduate Student Conference. April 26, 2008. Commentator. “Confronting the Past/Remembering the Present.” National Council on Public History. April 12, 2008. Commentator. “Representations of Identity and Space: Four Case Studies.” Third Annual Loyola University Chicago History Graduate Student Conference. April 28, 2007. Discussion Facilitator. “Building on a Borrowed Past: Place and Identity in Pipestone, Minnesota.” NCPH/AASLH Book Discussion Session. American Association for State and Local History. September 16, 2006. Commentator. “Constructing and Contesting Space.” Loyola University Chicago. April 29, 2006. Discussion Facilitator. “The Changing Face of Public History.” NCPH/AASLH Book Discussion Session. American Association for State and Local History. September 23, 2005. Commentator. “The Values of Community.” Inaugural Loyola University Chicago History Graduate Student Conference. May 14, 2005. Panelist. “Forum on the Master’s Degree in History.” American Historical Association. January 7, 2005. Panelist. “Designing a Curriculum: Core Ideas for Creating and Maintaining a Public History Program. American Historical Association. January 8, 2005. Discussion Facilitator. “The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understand Themselves and Their Land.” NCPH/AASLH Book Discussion Session. American Association for State and Local History. October 2, 2004. Roundtable Discussant. “Teaching Public History to Undergraduates: Opportunities and Challenges.” National Council on Public History. April 3, 2004. Chair. “Unintended Consequences: Archivists as Mediators in History.” Midwest Archives Conference. October 24, 2003. Chair/Commentator. “The Challenges of Interpretation at Historic House Museums.” National Council on Public History. April 25, 2003. Chair/Commentator. “National Parks: Cultural Conflicts in the Transformation of Cultural Landscapes.” National Council on Public History/Organization of American Historians. April 12, 2002. Chair/Commentator. “Taking the Past From Under Glass: Museums and the Construction of History.” OAH Regional Conference. August 4, 2000. Panelist. “Neighborhood History and the Politics of Memory.” Organization of American Historians. March 30, 1996. Chair/Commentator. “History and Federal Housing Policy: Exploring the ‘Dreary Deadlock,’ 1930- 1966.” National Council on Public History. April 12, 1996. Commentator. “Portrait of Rogers Park.” Historic Preservation Program. School of the Art Institute of Chicago. April 10, 1995. Commentator. “Community History in Museums.” Organization of American Historians/National Council on Public History. April 1, 1995. Chair. “Preservation and Planning: Of What and For Whom?” Fifth National Conference on American Planning History. November 20, 1993. Commentator. “Maps As Texts: Cartographic Resources for U.S. History.” Organization of American Historians. April 5, 1992. Chair/Commentator. “Using What You Have: Interpretation Issues and Strategies in Three Historic Houses.” National Council on Public History. March 14, 1992. Commentator. “Traveling to the Past: Tourism and Public History.” National Council on Public History. May 3, 1991. Chair. “Reaching the Public with Social History.” National Council on Public History. May 4, 1991. 10 Commentator. “Making Women's History Public: The Women's National Historic Landmark Project.” American Historical Association. December 28, 1990. Commentator. “Ethnics and Blacks in Twentieth Century Cities.” Organization of American Historians. March 24, 1990. Commentator. “Urban Development in the Postwar South.” Southern Historical Association. November 11, 1988. Panelist. “Teaching Public History.” National Council on Public History. April 24, 1987. Panelist. “The NEH/NCPH Summer Humanities Institute on Teaching Public History: Integrating Public History into the Curriculum.” National Council on Public History/Organization of American Historians. April 11, 1986. Commentator. “Approaches to Preserving A City's Past: Tempe.” National Council on Public History. April 26, 1985. Commentator. “History in the Community: Interpreting the Past to the Public.” Arkansas Historical Association. April 15, 1982. Chair/Commentator. “Frontier Women: The Forgotten Pioneer.” Symposium, “History From the Bottom Up: Historians and the People.” The College of Wooster. April 13, 1981. Commentator. “Making Research ‘Public’: A Museum's Experience.” Ohio Academy of History. April 21, 1979.

CURRENT RESEARCH

“RACE: Are We So Different? Visitor Evaluation Study and Assessment of Museums as Engagement Sites for Discussing Difficult Issues.” Co-PI, Elizabeth Fraterrigo. “The Landscape of Urban Memory: Public Space and Public Memory in Chicago.” Chapters in progress: Ethnicity, Work, Race, and Women. Public History and Signature Pedagogies

MUSEUM EXPERIENCE

Member. Advisory Committee. National Hellenic Museum. 2010-2012. Advisor. Frances Willard Historical Society. 2006. Advisor. Evanston History Gallery. Evanston Historical Society. 2005. Member. Focus Group. Frances Willard Historical Society. November 2003. Oral History Advisor. Teen Chicago Project. Chicago Historical Society. 2003. Consultant. Isolation is an Illusion. NEH Planning Grant. Geneva History Center. 2003. Consultant. Self-Study Focus Group. Evanston Historical Society. August 1995. Consultant. Interpretive Strategy Project. Lake County Museum. June 1995. Guest Curator. “Behold Our Works Were Good” Exhibition. In conjunction with the Arkansas Women's History Institute. The Old State House. Little Rock, Arkansas, 1986. Consultant. “Historical Ozark Quilts and Quiltmakers.” Rogers History Museums. Rogers, Arkansas, 1983-1985. Guest Researcher, Consultant, and Lecturer. “Only a Few Remain....Early Grand Hotels of Arkansas.” The Old State House. Little Rock, Arkansas, 1982-1983. Activities included: gallery talk: “Only a Few Remain...” and television appearances of Good Morning Arkansas, Channel 7, Little Rock, Arkansas and Arkansas Continuum, AETN, Conway, Arkansas. Consultant and Lecturer. “Nineteenth Century Southern Quilts.” The Old State House. Little Rock, Arkansas, 1982. Activities included a gallery talk: “Southern Quilts.” Guest Curator. “Ohio Quilts and Quilters 1800-1981.” Exhibition. Frick Art Gallery. The College of Wooster, 1981. Curator, Ohio Labor History Project. Ohio Historical Society, 1977-1979. Responsibilities included researching and writing exhibits, acquisition and care of artifacts, and public presentations. 11

EXHIBITIONS

Project Director. “Agents of Change: the Jesuits and Mid-America.” Traveling Exhibit. Loyola University Chicago. 1992-1993. “Behold Our Works Were Good.” In conjunction with the Arkansas Women's History Institute. The Old State House. Little Rock, Arkansas. July-August 1986. “Education in Arkansas.” UALR Library. University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Little Rock, Arkansas. 1983. Election Exhibits. In conjunction with the UALR Archives and Special Collections. Arkansas State Capitol. Little Rock, Arkansas. May-June and November 1982. “Arkansas Women in Politics.” In conjunction with the Women's Studies Program, University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Arkansas State Capitol. Little Rock, Arkansas. March 1982. “Ohio Quilts and Quilters 1800-1981.” Frick Art Gallery. The College of Wooster. Wooster, Ohio. April 5--May 5, 1981. “Women and Work: America's Working Women 1800-1979.” Traveling Exhibit. Ohio Historical Society. Columbus, Ohio. 1979. “Labor at Adena - Rural Labor in Frontier Ohio.” Adena, Home of Thomas Worthington. Ohio Historical Society. Chillicothe, Ohio. 1979. “Labor on Ohio's Canals.” Piqua Historical Area. Ohio Historical Society. Piqua, Ohio. 1979. “Riverboat Labor in the Ohio Valley.” Ohio River Museum. Ohio Historical Society. Marietta, Ohio. 1979.

ARCHIVAL EXPERIENCE

Member, Archives Advisory Committee, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County, 1992-1993, 2004-2015. Consultant. American Public Works Association, 1991-1992. Archives Program Development. Consultant. REACH Program. Cincinnati Department of Health, 1989. Development of records management/archival organization plan. Acting Director. UALR Archives and Special Collections. University of Arkansas at Little Rock. 1983- 1984. Duties included overall management of the Archives, systematization of user policies, acquisition of new collections, arrangement and description of selected collections, preparation of annual reports, opening of the Winthrop Rockefeller Collection, and a variety of archives- related public service activities. Archival Theory and Practice Seminar. Special Collections Department and Department of History. University of Cincinnati. 1977. Student Assistant. Special Collections Department. Urban Studies Collection. University of Cincinnati. 1975-1977. Student Assistant. Special Collections Department. University Archives. University of Cincinnati. 1976-1977.

PUBLIC HISTORY PROJECTS

Co-Principal Investigator with Elizabeth Fraterrigo. Race: Are We So Different? Visitor Survey Evaluation Project. Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center 2014-2015, South Carolina State Museum 2016, and San Diego Museum of Man 2017. “Race: Are We So Different? with Elizabeth Fraterrigo. Report. Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center. July 2015. Facilitator, Erie Neighborhood House History Project, 2003-2005. Project Director. North Park Village Nature Center Exhibition Project. 1999-2001. 12 Consultant. Loyola Visual History Project. Loyola University Chicago. 1994-1998. Co-Director. Kingsley History Project. Kingsley Elementary School. Evanston, Illinois. 1995-1996. Principal Investigator. “Guidebook to DoD-related World War II Sites and Museums.” Legacy Resource Management Program, Department of Defense. 1992-1995. Member. Advisory Board. “Neighborhoods: Keepers of Culture.” The Chicago Historical Society. 1993-1998. Member. Education Subcommittee, History/Lecture Committee. Archdiocese of Chicago Sesquicentennial Celebration. Product: “Growth of Parishes in a Geographic Area: St. Martin's Parish 1886-1989, Englewood, Chicago.” 1993-1994. Project Director. East Rogers Park Neighborhood History Project. 1992-1993. Member. Working Group on Archival Materials and Historic Objects. Legacy Resource Management Program, Department of Defense. Washington, D.C. 1991. Editor and principal author. Arkansas Preservation. Historic Preservation Alliance of Arkansas. 1988- 1989. Consultant. “Making Equal Opportunity a Reality: A History of the Urban League of Little Rock.” Exhibit, Slide-Tape Presentation, and Brochure, The Urban League of Little Rock. 1987-1989. Consultant. Civilian Conservation Corps Oral History Project. National Association of Civilian Conservation Corps Alumni. Little Rock, Arkansas. 1981-1986. Consultant. “History and Effectiveness of Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies as Related to Arkansas.” State of Arkansas Division of Rehabilitation. 1983-1985. Consultant. “Arkansas: A Diamond in the Rough.” Lt. Cherry Chapter, Daughters of the American Colonists. Little Rock, Arkansas. 1984-1985. Editor. AARM Newsletter. Arkansas Archivists and Record Managers Association. Little Rock, Arkansas, 1982-1984.

SERVICE

Department

Graduate Program Director, 2002-2006, 2017-Present. Essay Reviewer, Ramonat Seminar in American Catholic History and Culture. 2018. Supervisor, Media Assistants, Spring-Summer 2018. Chair, African History Search Committee, 2005. Director, Public History Program. 1990-2002. Editor, Loyola History News. 1991-1999. Member, African American Search Committee. 1997-1998. Graduate Programs Committee. 1989-Present. Quincentennial Committee. 1989-1992. Faculty Development Committee. 1989-1991 Member, Professional Development Committee, 2002-2004. Peer Review, Leslie Dossey, History 308, History of Rome, 2000. Peer Review, Christopher Manning, History 380, African-American History, 1865-Present, 1999.

Master's Essays Supervised, 1991-Present: 42 Master’s Field Examination Committees, 1992-Present: 20 Public History Examination Committees, 1990-Present: 125 Ph.D. Field Examination Committees, 1991-Present: 30 Ph.D. Dissertations, Director 1998-Present: 9 Katherine Macica (In Progress) “Environments of War: The Pacific Northwest and the Waging of World War II”

13 Hope Shannon (In Progress) “‘A Neighborhood that Treasures its Heritage’: Local Historical Societies in Metropolitan Chicago, 1960-1980” Audra Bellmore (2014) English Cottage Styles Homes in America: Expressions of Architectural, Technological and Social Innovation” Elizabeth Hoffman Ransford (2010) “Sacred Spaces, Public Places: The Intersection of Religion and Space in Three Chicago Communities, 1869-1932” Jennifer Bridge (2009) “Tourist Attractions, Souvenirs, and Civil War Memory in America” Jan R. Olive Nash (2006) “Hinterland or Heartland: The Survival of Small-Town Lake Mills, 1850-1950” Constance Buckley (2005) “Searching for Fort Dearborn: Perception, Commemoration, and Celebration of an Urban Creation Memory” Jerry L. Foust (2004) “Our Town, Their Town: Community and Tourism in South Haven, Michigan 1830- 1930” Dennis Cremin (1998) “Building Chicago’s Front Yard: Grant Park, 1836-1936” Ph.D. Dissertations, Co-Director -2 Stella Ress (2014) “‘We Are Not Little Babies Anymore’: A Cultural History of Small Girls in America, 1920-1945” Ronald Martin (2012) “Flowers in Chicago: Counterculture in Chicago in the 1960s” Ph.D. Dissertation Committees, 1994-Present: 17 Meagan McChesney (In Progress) “Exhibiting Sovereignty: Tribal Museums in the Great Lakes Region, 1975-2010” Rachel E. Lewis (2017) “Temples of the City, Pillars of the Community: Chicago and the Modern Museum Movement, 1880s-1940s.” Middle Tennessee State University O. Eliot Pope (2016) “Forgotten Soldiers from a Forgotten War: Oral History Testimonies of African American Soldiers from the Korean War” Sarah Eilfelson (2015) “The Trauma Thesis: Medical and Literary Representations of Psychological Trauma in the Twentieth Century” Joel Yoder (2015) “Herbert Spencer and his American Audience” Patrick Mallory (2013) “The Game They All Played: Chicago Baseball, 1876-1906” Daniel Ott (2014) “Producing a Past: Cyrus McCormick’s Reaper from Heritage to History.” Megan Stout (2013) “Reaping the ‘Colored Harvest’: The Catholic Mission in the American South” Maria Reynolds (2011) “Doing History in the Adirondacks: Interpreting the Park, the People, and the Landscape”

14 Jean Robbins (2011) “Black Clubwomen’s Purposes for Establishing Kindergartens in the Progressive Era, 1890-1910” Marc Dluger (2009) “A Regimental Community: The Men of the 82nd Illinois Infantry Before, During, and After the American Civil War” Angela Schlater (2008) “Flaming Youth: Gender in 1920s Hollywood” Elizabeth Fraterrigo (2004) “‘Entertainment for Men’: Playboy, Masculinity, and Postwar America” Timothy Neary (2004) “Crossing Racial Boundaries: African Americans and Interracial Catholic Social Action in Chicago” Laura Milsk (2003) “Meet Me at the Station: The Culture and Aesthetics of Chicago’s Railroad Terminals, 1871-1930” Jeffrey Brierton (2002) “War on Two Fronts: Vietnam and the Heartland: A Study of the Effect of the Vietnam War on an American Community, 1965-1954” Kathleen Toerpe (1994) “Small Fry, Big Spender: McDonald’s and the Rise of a Children’s Consumer Culture, 1955-1985”

Courses Taught: 201/202 U.S. History Before/Since 1865; 103American Pluralism; American Urban History; 300 The Progressive Era; 300 U.S. History 1890-1940; 366 World War I and American Culture; 367 America Since 1940; 395 Senior Colloquium; 398 History Internship 410 American Settlement House Movement; 410 World War I and American Culture; 487 Management of History Museums; 480 Public History: Method and Theory; 461 Twentieth Century America; 492 U.S. Local History; 499 Directed Readings; 555 U.S. Social and Intellectual History; 581; Public History Practicum; 582 Public History Internship; 584 U.S. Local History; 598 Dissertation Proposal Seminar; 599 Directed Primary Research.

IRB Certification. Loyola University Chicago. 2002, 2005, 2010, 2013, 2016. Responsible Conduct in Research and Scholarship Certification. Loyola University Chicago. 2012. Online Teaching Certificate. Loyola University Chicago. 2018.

College of Arts and Sciences

Faculty Contact, James Madison Graduate Fellowship Program, 2002-2006.

Institute of Pastoral Studies

Member. ATS Steering Committee, 2017-2018.

Graduate School (Prior to Associate and Interim Dean- Pre 2006)

Council of Graduate School Programs, 2001-2006. Executive Committee, 2002-2006. Chair, Program Review Committee, 2002-2006. Member, Program Review Committee, 2001-2002. Member, Curriculum Committee, 2000-2001. 15 Council of Masters Programs. 1989-2001. Council Member. 1989-1996. Graduate School Coordinating Board. 1993-1995. Member, Curriculum Subcommittee. 1989-1995. Chair, Review Committee for the Liberal Studies Program. 1991-1992. Graduate Fellowships Committee. 1998-2004. Review of Barbara Clemenson's thesis for the Midwest Association of Graduate Schools' Distinguished Thesis Award. 1990.

Graduate School – Post 2006

Council of Graduate School Programs, Member. 2017-Present. Dean’s Council. Member. 2015-2017. Distinguished Thesis Committee. Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools. 2016-2017. Chair. Association of Graduate Schools in Catholic Colleges and Universities. 2016. Chair. Illinois Association of Graduate Schools. 2014-2015. Membership Committee. Council of Graduate Schools. 2014-2016. Chair, 2016-2017. Nominating Committee. Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools. 2011-2014.

University

Member. Sesquicentennial Steering Committee. 2017-Present. Member. Internship Affinity Group. Center for Experiential Learning. 2017-Present. Member. Institutional Research Board, 2017-Present. Presenter: Focus on Teaching and Learning. “How Are We Instructing the Instructors?: Pedagogical Training in Graduate Education.” 2018. Member. Task Force on Inclusive and Supportive Classroom Environments. Spring 2017. Member. Dean’s Council. 2015-2017. Member. Graduate Studies Coordinating Board. 2015-2017. Member. Graduation Group, 2006-2017. Presenter. TRIO History. TRIO Fall Banquets. 2015-2016. Planning Committee and Facilitator. “Balancing Our Economic Realities With Our Call to the Margins.” Heartland Delta 7. Heartland Delta 7 Conference. 2015. Member. University Strategic Planning Committee. 2014-2015. Member. University Conduct Board, 2011-2014 Discussion Leader. New Student Convocation Discussion Groups. August 2013. Member. Gannon Faculty Fellows Review Committee. Gannon Center for Women and Leadership. 2013. Panelist. Funding Graduate School and Money Management. ACE Program. 2012. Graduate School Point person. AJCU Institutional Examen and Other Social Justice Work. 2012. Member. Search Committee. Women and Leadership Archives Director. 2012. Member. University Conduct Board. 2011-2013. Member. Working Group. Interfaith Youth Core. 2010-2011. Panelist. “Colleagues in Mission: A Panel Discussion.” Ignatian Heritage Week. February 2011. Nomination Review Committee. Annual Diversity Recognition. Department of Student Diversity and Multicultural Affairs, 2010. Reviewer. Stimulating Multipdisciplinary Research Grant Competition, 2010. Participant. Ignatian Colleges Program, 2009-2011. Member, Academic Program Review Committee, 2005-2010. Member. University Research Committee. Subcommittee on Awards. (Lakeside Campuses). 1995- 2016. 16 Member. Academic Advisement Committee, 2006-2010. Member. Task Force on Professional and Graduate Education, Strategic Planning Process, 2007-2009. Member. Search Committee, Master’s Program in Urban Affairs and Public Policy Director, representing History, Spring 2008. Committee Member. Truman Fellowship Applications, 2003. Board of Trustees. Facilities Committee. 1996-1999. University Research Committee. 1990-1992.

Professional

Commencement Address. Graduate Commencement. Elmhurst College. May 27, 2017. Graduate Program Review: Doctoral Program Review, Department of History, Middle Tennessee State University, February 2014. Master’s Program in Archival, Museum, and Editing Studies, Department of History, Duquesne University. January 2006. Proposed Ph.D. in Public History Review, Department of History, Middle Tennessee State University. Tennessee Board of Regents. February 2004. Proposed Master of Arts in Heritage Resources, Northwestern State University. Louisiana Board of Regents. 2003. Master’s Programs Review, Middle Tennessee State University. April 2001. Social History and the City Program. Cleveland State University. April 17-18, 1997. National Council on Public History: Member. Council of Past Presidents.2013-Present. Co-Chair, 2008 Annual Conference, 2006-2008. Chair, Nominating Committee, 2004-2006. Editorial Board, The Public Historian, 1996-2002. Reviewer: The Public Historian “Historic Environmental Education: Thinking Locally, Acting Historically.” 2010. “Whose City Hall Is It? Architecture and Identity in New Orleans.” 2006. “Outside the Frame: Assessing Partnerships between Arts and Historical Organizations. 2003. “Rethinking Historical Reconstruction: Las Vegas and the Follies of History.” 2002. “Public History at Howard University.” 2002. “Teaching Public History: Strategies for Undergraduate Program Development.” 2002. “Creating a Future for Boston’s Past.” 2001. “Spin Cycle: the Evolution of the Household Laundry in the Twentieth Century House.” 2001. “Applied Environmentalism: Reconciling Perceptions of the Built and Natural Environments.” 2000. “Images of the Past: History and Authenticity in the Built Environment From Disney to Times Square.” 1999. “Do Visitors Get It? A Sweatshop Exhibit and Visitors’ Comments.” 1999. “A Study of Defining Purpose: Commemorative Intent and the Bar-1 Radar station of the DEW Line in Irvavik National Park,” 1997. “Heroes of the Home Front: Life North of the Battlefield.” 1997. “Heritage Development & Everyday Life.” 1996. “To Retain, Enhance, and Interpret: National Heritage Corridors in Context.” 1996. “Signs of the Times: Tourism and Public History at Cape Town's Victoria and Alfred Waterfront.” 1995. “New Consumers for Public History.” 1994. 17 “Public History: Past, Present and Future, The Long and Winding Path to Professional Vindication.” 1993. “Gender Issues in Exhibitry.” 1993. “Selling the Image of History: Long Grove, Illinois.” 1991. “Balancing History and Ethnography in Museum Programs.” 1987. “Promotion and Tenure Criteria for Faculty and Applied History.” 1984. Curriculum and Training Committee, Chair, 2000-2005. Leadership Council, 2003. Awards Committee, 1999-2000. G. Wesley Johnson Award Committee, 1997-1999. Co-chair, Ad-Hoc Public History Program Graduates Survey Committee, 1996-1997. President, 1994-1995. Representative, Task Force on Museums and Historians, 1995-1998. Long Range Planning Committee, 1994-1995, 2003. Vice President, 1993-1994. Membership Committee, Chair, 1993-1994. Program Committee, 1989-1991. Program Chair, 1989 Annual Meeting. Newsletter Committee, Chair, 1986-1987. Membership Committee, 1986. Secretary, 1986. Archives Committee, Chair, 1985-1986. Board of Directors and Executive Committee, 1983-1986. Curriculum and Training Committee, Co-Chair, 1982-1984. American Historical Association: Member, AHA Committee on the Master’s Degree in History, 2003-2006. Member, Local Arrangements Committee, 2002-2003. Faculty Participant, “Interviewing in the Job Market in the Twenty-First Century,” 2003. Evanston Historical Society: Scholarship Evaluation: Memories and Milestones: An Exhibit of Evanston History. 2006 Nominating Committee, 1996. Illinois State Historical Society: Chicago Markers Program, 1995-1997. Advisory Board, 1993-1995. Symposium Committee, 1993-1996. Nominating Committee, Chair, 1993-1994. Program Committee, 1993. Minority Heritage Committee, 1993. Executive Committee, 1992-1993. Board of Directors, 1990-1993. Awards Committee, 1990-1993. Membership Committee, 1991-1992. Journal of Community Practice Reviewer: “Embracing Risk and Promise for Student Engagement: Incorporating Experiential Teaching Methods in a Community Psychology Course.” 2017. University of Chicago Press Reviewer: Vivian Maier’s World. 2016. Bloomsbury Press Reviewer: What is Public History Now? 2016. Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society: Reviewer: “A Dream Coming True! Something the World Will Come to See.” 2008. 18 Journal of Planning History: Reviewer: “Women Adrift in Cleveland’s Planning History.” 2003. Journal of Illinois History: Reviewer: “The Chicago Heritage Committee and the New Preservation.” 2000. Rogers Park/West Ridge Historical Society: Board Member, 1992-1996. Public Works Historical Society: Nominating Committee, 1993-1995. The Chicago Historical Society: Evaluator, “Whose History Shall We Teach?” March 13, 1993. Society for Industrial Archaeology: Conference Planning Committee, 1990-1991. Urban History Association: Board Member, 1988-1990, 1999-2002. Southern Historical Association: Membership Committee, 1985-1986. Cincinnati Historical Society: Editorial Board, Queen City Heritage, 1985-2000. Reviewer: “‘Brave Hearts There Were’: The Women’s Exchange of Cincinnati, 1883-1900.” 1999. “Cincinnati, Municipal Sanitation and Public Health: The First Hundred Years.” 1993. American Association for State and Local History: Steering Committee Member. Women’s History Affinity Group. 2014-Present. Awards Program, State Chair, 1982-1983. Mid-America: Loyola Advisory Board, 1991-2002. Reviewer: “Medicine, Media, and Mystery: The 1918 Flu Epidemic in Milwaukee, WI.” 1997. “The Question of Constitutional Prohibition: Idealists v. Realists.” 1997. “‘Enforced Leisure:’ New Deal Recreation in Indiana.” 1996. “A Message From the Heartland: State Sanctioned Sterilization in Iowa.” 1996. “Kansas Poor Relief: The Influence of the Great Depression.” 1995. “Cooperate Cooperation and Social Legislation.” 1995. “Building Up the State: Women Reformers and Child Welfare Work in Indiana During World War I.” 1993. “Forgotten Reformer: Edward J. Ward and the Community Center Movement 1907 – 1921.” 1991. National Endowment for the Humanities: Reviewer: “Microfilming of Historic Scrapbooks.” Division of Preservation and Access. 1999. “The Historical Encyclopedia of Chicago Women.” Division of Preservation and Access. 1996. “Preservation and Access of the History of Freedom House and its Founders, Muriel and Otto P. Snowden Papers.” Division of Preservation and Access. 1995. “Preservation and Access of New York Settlement House Records.” Division of Preservation and Access. 1994. “The Preservation of Historical Images.” Office of Preservation. 1991. “The Preservation of Dance Film Materials in the New York Public Library Collection.” Office of Preservation. 1991. “Modes of Inquiry for American City History.” Division of Research. 1989. “Social Policy History Curriculum.” Division of Education. 1985. 19 Panel Member: Evaluation of proposals for humanities programming in museums and historical organizations. Division of Museums and Historical Organizations. 1991. Evaluation of proposals for humanities programming in elementary and secondary schools. Elementary and Secondary Schools Program. Division of Education. 1984. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada: Reviewer: “More Than Catching Babies: Japanese American Midwives and Public Health Work in Washington and Hawaii, 1920-1940.” 1993. Journal of Urban History: Reviewer: “The American Real Estate Industry and the Origins of Neighborhood Conservation.” 1986. Reviewer: Introduction to Public History. AltaMira Press. 2011. Improvement and the Landscape of Home: Chicago, 1890-1920. Univ. of Illinois Press. 2005. Small Shrines and Halls of Fame: Local Museums and Local History. AltaMira Press. 2005. Benjamin Shambaugh and the Intellectual Foundations of Public History. Univ. of Iowa Press. 2000. “Bringing History to Life in the I&M Canal National Heritage Corridor-Canal Pioneers.” Illinois Humanities Council. 1999. “Interpretation of Historical Conflict in Living History Museums” for the American Association of Museums Technical Information Service Review of Graduate Student Work. 1994. Proposals for the Fifth National Conference on American Planning History. 1993. “Local History, National Heritage” for the American Association for State and Local History. 1992. Reclaiming the Past: Landmarks of Women's History. Edited by Page Putnam Miller for Indiana Univ. Press. 1991. Occupational description of historian for SIGI Plus Program. Educational Testing Service, 1990-2000. The Arts and The City for the Univ. Press of Kentucky. 1986. “Urban Life and Urban Landscape Series” Proposal. Ohio State Univ. Press. 1986. “The Women's City Club, 1915-1965” for the Cincinnati Historical Society and the Woman's City Club of Cincinnati. 1986. Public History: An Introduction. Edited by Barbara J. Howe and Emory L. Kemp for Krieger Press. 1985. Proposals for the National Women's Studies Association Annual Conference. 1985. Proposals for National Women's Studies Association Conference, Folklore and Popular Culture Section. 1983. The City of Hills and Kilns: Life and Work in East Liverpool, Ohio for the Ohio Historical Society and The East Liverpool Historical Society. 1982. Reviewer, Tenure and/or Promotion: Promotion for Full Professor: Marla Miller, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2009. Promotion to Associate Professor: Marla Miller, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2004. Promotion to Associate Professor: Jon Hunner, New Mexico State University. 2001. Promotion to Full Professor: Constance Schulz. University of South Carolina. 1996. Promotion to Full Professor: Deborah J. Baldwin. University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 1994. Tenure and Promotion to Associate Professor: William S. Bryans. Oklahoma State University. 1993. Promotion to Full Professor: Noel Stowe. Department of History. Arizona State University. 1991.

20 Tenure and Promotion to Associate Professor: Diane Britton. Department of History. University of Toledo. 1990. Tenure and Promotion to Associate Professor: Jeffrey Brown. Department of History. New Mexico State University. 1989. Tenure and Promotion to Associate Professor: Thomas J. Jablonsky. Department of History. University of Southern California. 1988. Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Member, Internships, Fellowships, Research Awards Committee. 2001-2002. Pulaski County Historical Association: F. Roy Hampton History Awards Contest, Judge. 1984.

Community

Fort Sheridan Historical Society House tour Docent: 2017, 2018. Amigos de las Americas: President: 2007-2009. Consultant, Fall 2009. Board Member, 2005-2007. Fundraising Co-Chair, 2005-2007. Frances Willard Historical Association: Advisor, 2006. Community Focus Group, 2003. Chicago Metro History Fair: Judge, Papers, Regional Competition, Loyola University, March 15, 2005. Judge, Exhibits, Regional Competition, Niles North High School, March, 2004. Judge, Exhibits, Regional Competition, Evanston Township High School, March 8, 2003. Haven Middle School: Chair, Art and History Committee. 1999-2000. Evanston Preservation Commission: Expert witness in favor of the Northeast Evanston Historic District. 1999. Loyola University: “Reading Your Neighborhood: A History of East Rogers Park.” Center for Faith and Culture. November 2, 1995. The Chicago Architecture Foundation: “A History of East Rogers Park.” Wednesday Lunchtime Lectures. May 24, 1995. The Rogers Park Historical Society: “Reading Your Neighborhood: A Brief History of East Rogers Park.” December 11, 1993. The McHenry County Historical Society: “The Social World of Quilting.” April 6, 1992. Rogers Park Montessori School: Presentation on Martin Luther King, Extended Day class. 1991. Coordinator. RPMS History. 25th Anniversary Celebration. 1990-1992. University History Institute: “Teddy Roosevelt and the Rise of the Modern Presidency.” 1989. UALR Commission on the Status of Women: “Women and Quilts.” 1989. Arkansas Women's History Institute: Chair, Susie Pryor Award Committee, 1988-1989. Board Member, 1984-1988. Secretary, 1985-1986. 21 Historic Preservation Alliance of Arkansas: Board Member, 1986-1989. Newsletter Committee, Chair, 1988-1989. Executive Committee, 1987-1989. Education Committee, 1986. Arkansas Humanities Resource Center: Advisory Board Member, 1982-1989. Alpha Delta Kappa, Arkansas: “History of Quilts.” April 18, 1988. Arkansas Quilters Guild, Inc.: “Searching Out the Quiltmaker.” October 12, 1987. “Quilts in Women's Lives.” January 14, 1985. KLRE-FM, Little Rock, Arkansas: “Metropolitan Revitalization,” presentation for Special Edition, February 19, 1985. Guest: Fundraising Campaigns, 1984-1985, 1987. Arkansas Chapter of the American Association of University Women, Little Rock Chapter: Panelist: “Problems of Women and Work.” March 16, 1985. Volunteers in the Public Schools, Little Rock, Arkansas: “Careers in History,” Central High School and Hall High School, 1984. Arkansas State Capitol: “To Be a Women in Arkansas.” May 5, 1984. Arkansas College: Lunchtime Learning Series. “To Be a Woman in Arkansas.” October 24, 1984. International Community Leadership Conference. Winrock, Arkansas: Assistant Captain, Meeting Logistics. 1983. Shelter for Battered Women, Little Rock, Arkansas: “To Be a Woman in Arkansas.” October 26, 1983. Women's City Club, Little Rock, Arkansas: “To Be a Woman in Arkansas.” September 9, 1983. Network for Executive Women, Little Rock, Arkansas: “To Be a Woman in Arkansas.” July 11, 1983. Billboards Have Been in Trouble for Decades," Arkansas Gazette, April 25, 1983 Arkansas Society of Professional Engineers Auxiliary, Little Rock, Arkansas: “Women and Their Role in Public Life.” February 25, 1983. Museum of Science and History, Little Rock, Arkansas: “Women in Little Rock History.” November 11, 1982. State History Day Competition, Little Rock, Arkansas: Judge. 1982. Arkansas Council for International Visitors, Little Rock, Arkansas: UALR Host for Ronald Mwale, Zambia. 1982. Little Rock 150th Birthday Commission, Little Rock, Arkansas: Judge. Essay Contest. 1981.

PUBLIC HISTORY ADMINISTRATION

Grants and Contracts U.S. Department of Defense. Legacy Resource Management Program. "Guidebook to DoD World War II Sites and Museums." $105,000. 1992-1995. Loyola Endowment for the Liberal Arts Award. "East Rogers Park Neighborhood History Project." $1500. 1993.

22 Illinois Humanities Council Mini-Grant. "East Rogers Park Neighborhood History Project." $2000. 1992-1993. Loyola Endowment for the Humanities Award. "East Rogers Park Neighborhood History Project." $4000. 1992-1993. Illinois Humanities Council Grant. "Agents of Change: the Jesuits and Mid-America." $4,950. 1991-1993.

Internships and Practicums Arranged and Supervised Total: 102. Institutions include the National Park Service; Loyola University Archives and the Women and Leadership Archives, Loyola University Chicago; Northwestern University Archives; the Chicago Historical Society; the Swedish American Museum Center; the Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois; Mackinac State Historic Parks; the Kenilworth Historical Society; the Evanston Historical Society; the Illinois Humanities Council; the Polish Museum of America; the Historical Society of Oak Park and River Forest; Mount Prospect Historical Society; the City of Elgin; the Illinois State Historical Society; Uptown Community Development Corporation; the Geneva History Center; Chicago Metro History Education Center; Ameritech Corporate Archives; the Museum of Science and Industry; the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency; the Oak Park Preservation Commission; the Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois; the Circuit Court of Cook County; Laurel Hill State Park; the First Division Museum at Cantigny; the Chicago Community Trust; the Newberry Library; the Charnley-Persky House; Fayette Historic State Park; the Winnetka Historical Society; Southwestern Pennsylvania Heritage Preservation Commission; The Art Institute of Chicago; the Charlevoix Historical Society and Museum; the Canal Corridor Association; the Adler Planetarium; the National Archives – Great Lakes Region; The Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio Museum; the Public Works Historical Society; Kraft General Foods, Inc.; the HMS Bounty; Joyce Foundation; Grindstone Productions; Auburn-Cord-Duesdenberg Museum; Kingsley School; the Adler Planetarium; Sigma Chi Fraternity Archives.

Public History Advisory Board Annual Meeting Organizer, 1990-1999. Participant, 1989-1990.

Lectures Arranged Edward Linenthal. “Preserving Memory: The Holocaust in American Culture.” Sponsored by the Department of History and the Loyola Endowment for the Liberal Arts. Edward Linenthal. “The Politicized Past.” Sponsored by the Endowment for the Liberal Arts. “Exploring the Minority Heritage of Illinois through Historic Sites.” Sponsored by the Illinois State Historical Society and held at Loyola on March 4, 1993. Dominic Pacyga. “Looking at History from the Neighborhood Up.” Sponsored by the East Rogers Park Neighborhood History Project and held at Loyola on November 16, 1992. Christopher Reed. “The Best Kept Secret: Chicago Protest Advocacy Before 1960.” Sponsored By the Illinois State Historical Society and held at Loyola on February 20, 1992.

Editor, Loyola History News, 1991-1999. Author, Public History Brochure, 1992. Co-Author, History Viewbook, 1991.

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